We all have a ton of stuff to do in our everyday lives. Well, most of us anyways! There is a constant battle to balance work and personal life and sometimes (or rather a lot of times), one has to suffer at the expense of the other.

What can I say, that’s just the price you pay for being an adult, am I right? Anyways, we all have our own ways of dealing with the pile of stuff that we need to deal with every single day.

Some of us meet those head on, some of us meet those head on but reluctantly and then there are people like me that like to avoid them for as long as possible until it becomes absolutely necessary to do them. Guilty as charged.

We are a special group of people called the procrastinators. No we are not a team of superheroes out to save the world. Even if we were, we would probably end up avoiding it and the Earth would be destroyed! Anyways, if you want to know if you are a procrastinator too, read on! Chances are that you already know, but still, read on!!

1. You Avoid Doing Things

So, you have a ton of files to check at work or an article to write for your company or a deadline to meet for your very important project but if you avoid doing all these till the very last moment, you sir, are a procrastinator.

The thing is, we are infected by a deadly virus. The virus of laziness! And for some odd reason, we will put off completing tasks like these until it is absolutely necessary to complete them and we don’t have any other option.

As a result we often have long to-do lists that for some reason keeps getting longer and longer and nothing seems to get checked as done. How could it, when we are busy doing trivial things like, staring at the ceiling or binge watching tv shows for example!

Urgency seems to be the only thing that can push people like us to get off our behinds and actually do some stuff. You won’t believe how many nights I have stayed awake finishing the entire semester’s worth of studying on the night before the exam.

2. You Spend More Time Thinking Than Doing

So, it’s not like we don’t care about the various things we have to do, it’s just that we tend to spend so much time thinking about doing these things that there is just hardly enough time left to actually do them.

Since there is already a long list of to-dos, and we tend to overly think about every single item on that list, you can imagine what happens. That’s right. We get tired of thinking so much and just go to sleep instead!!

I am the worst at it. Do you know how much time I spent about writing this article than actually writing it? I have had this idea in my ‘to-write’ list for weeks now and only today am I finally doing it!!

3. You Are Easily Distracted

Granted today’s world is so full of distractions at every step and almost everyone is affected by them to a certain degree. But it is even worse for us procrastinators because we have an attention span of a 5 year old.

That’s right! We could be in the most determined of states working on a serious project but if someone so much as mentions Game of Thrones, we got to immediately open Youtube up and listen to that theme song!

Even as I am writing this, there is a bird outside pecking at my bedroom window that I am having to muster up all my will power to not look at. Ok, I lied. I have already looked like 5 times as I am typing this.

4. You Have An Excuse For Everything

Procrastinators will more often than not, never simply say that they don’t want to do it. They would rather come up with an excuse which can sometimes get very creative.

The most common one is, “I don’t have to do it right now”, which I explained in the first point. Then there is another common one, “I don’t know where to start!” and hence begins the take over by the distractions.

Then there is a kind of an odd one. If it is 6:51 pm, a procrastinator would probably want to wait for 7 pm, because……reasons! Then if when you check the clock, the time is 7:04 pm, well you will now have to wait for 7:30 pm. It just has to be this way!

You won’t believe the kind of excuses I have given myself for not doing important things which have ranged from, “I have a tooth ache” to “My hair is not looking right.” Well, ok, not that last one, but you get the point!